It is high time that we had a knitting update, though truthfully there has been very little actual knitting this winter. Projects deemed to be current: Warriston: knitting complete, still in need of armhole grafting and other finishing tasks Mr L's Sir Lancelot sweater - no further progress - back at armholes, front ribbing done …
Beef, no olives in sight
Our local butcher makes a lovely Beef Olive, stuffed with Haggis instead of the more usual oatmeal stuffing. Mr L is very partial to these and so it was when I placed my pre-Christmas meat order at the Community Shop that I included two packs of these tasty items (one of which was previously consumed.) …
Eggs (and shoes) are like buses
When we first bought our eight point of lay pullets, we fed them for months and months without sight of an egg. Eventually our first egg arrived on Boxing Day. Thereafter, the hens went off-lay in early November and the next eggs turned up around Christmas each year. In reality they must have staggered their …
Old Woman Shoes
Pretty shoes are so much a thing of the past that I might almost be persuaded that I had never owned such a thing. I was 40 when arthritis attacked the large joint in my right big toe, since when heels and low cut courts have been impossible to wear. I wear Old Woman shoes. …
The pudding of doom
Our weekend shopping yielded a pack of croissants and the necessary requirement of some strawberry preserve. The croissants we had for breakfast on Sunday were actually pretty awful but the jam was nice, a high fruit content preserve made from a mix of wild and cultivated strawberries. I was pondering the preserve when I realised …
You make me feel like dancing
I mentioned that I wanted to talk about a programme that I found on the BBC's iPlayer, You Make me Feel Like Dancing. It's low-budget "reality" TV. Not something I might normally stumble across but I was so taken by the blurb that I had to watch it and find out more. [su_quote]Series following choreographer …